[OpenAFS] AFS volume info

[Tino Schwarze]

Hi Simone,

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:52:24PM +0100, Simone Sestini wrote:

> I have installed a first AFS server.
> On this server i have create 3 vicepxx partition..
> 
> Each partion is 500Gb.. I have configured only a cell using the /vicepa 
> partition.
> How can i do for  add the other 2 partitions /vicepb and /vicepc.

You don't need to do anything special to use /vicepb and /vicepc. Just
create volumes on them. (Use "vos listpart $server" to figure out what
partitions are there, maybe you need to restart the AFS servers using
"bos restart $server -all" if you added the partitions after starting
the server processes)

> Is it possible to add the space to the existing cell without lose any data 
> on it ? or i could add a new cell to my server and configure the new 
> partition to this new cell ?

There cannot be more than one cell per server. You seem to misunderstand
the cell / server / partition concept.

Cell: An administrative domain. Or: An authentication domain. Usually
consists of one or more servers.
Server: Belongs to a cell. Contains data belonging to a cell
(authentication / user+group / file data)
Partition: A container for volumes. Resides on a server.  There might be
more than one partition per server.
Volume: A container for files + directories + ACLs. A volume is
basically a name, a number and a quota (max. size). A volume is stored
in a partition. It might have readonly clones on other servers.

> I need to configure another server.. this new server have to be the TOTAL 
> BACKUP of the first one.. I'll configure the system to have the same 
> partition configuration and all but how can i configure the afs on the 
> fisrt and second server to exchange the complete datas ?

AFAIK there is no out-of-the-box method of hot-syncing two AFS file
servers. At least there is no special infrastructure in OpenAFS. 

HTH! Tino.

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